![]() ![]() We fire off each other in a way that drives our engine. I think we have a very particular inner dynamic. Why do you think you’ve been able to endure for so long? You are one of the few groups from your era to still be touring this much, recording music and films and staying super-active. But the fans who were there are superfans and they’re more interested in hearing new songs than “Girls on Film.” It was fresh for us and easier because when we’re playing bigger venues you have to lean away from the new material, probably only two bathroom breaks there. You play in Nashville to 10,000 people who payed for a ticket, parking, a babysitter and they come to hear the hits. Why did you push the new material so hard during this one-off? You really leaned into the most recent album with five songs out of the 12 you played. We hadn’t played a show in quite a few months and we wanted to start with something not too difficult. It’s a shake-and-bake opener, it’s easy to play, a here-we-are kind of thing. I think because it’s a Hollywood thing, a movie thing. Was there significance to opening with “View to a Kill?” Our manager said if we perform here we’d have the Hollywood sign behind us and the Capitol building in front. So, we looked for a fixed position and this place came up that none of us knew about it. We talked about that, we talked about a truck at the Roxy and then everyone got nervous about setting up gear on a truck. truckscapade, which was the greatest of launches. You got back to the Rolling Stones’ Fifth Ave. tour and there were variable ways to do it. We were looking to do something that was going to announce our U.S. Why use this as a stunt to announce your U.S. And with our old friend the Capitol building. Duran Duran has never been a political band, but to make that kind of statement halfway through the show… there’s something very cool about that. At that moment it felt like a statement, a show of solidarity. Here we and the war continues and every night we still dedicate “Ordinary World” to the people of Ukraine. My first thought was, “we gotta light that f–king building!” I wanted to light it with the Ukraine colors, so we moved very quickly to make it happen. What was it like setting up on that roof and then looking straight at the Capitol building? It being lit up in blue and yellow is a nice permanent reminder of the war in Ukraine. We were still under the radar here, we could make friendships with guys you’d meet at a radio station and end up hanging out and listening to music. For me there’s a certain nostalgia for the first couple times we came into America, that innocence to what we were doing. It was fortunate and it definitely helped our cause. Being on Capitol Records was pretty cool at the time. Birmingham is the one other city with a landmark circular building. The iconic rounded Capitol Records building plays a big part in the movie and in the intro it’s noted that it looks like the Rotunda from your hometown. Simon had a working title, “Rio,” and we had to make a song out of it. But when we got back to Birmingham and toyed with ideas for the next record we talked about the next level of exotic. My first experience of leaving my country was with the band in 1981 when we came to the States for the first time. That first year I was a kid who didn’t have a passport before the band began. I had no idea that’s what “from the mountains in the north down to the Rio Grande” meant.įor me the idea of “Rio” literally encapsulated a world, a culture we had yet to tap into, which is South America. Simon says in the into that “Rio” was inspired by your first trip to America. But I can’t see it any other way now… I had to spend real time there to appreciate its pleasures I never could have imagined myself settling there. I don’t know that it was important… but as a guy who has lived there for last 30-plus years, my first experiences there were all in the 1980s and it never left much of an impression on me. Why was it important to open the movie with all that background on L.A.’s influence on the band and your enduring love affair with the city? The 12-song set opens with their 1985 James Bond theme, “A View to a Kill,” and features such classics as “Notorious,” “Come Undone,” “Ordinary World” and “Hungry Like the Wolf,” as well as a handful of songs from the band’s most recent album, Future Past.Ĭheck out the chat with Taylor below (answers editor for clarity and length.) A Hollywood High was filmed atop the Aster Hotel in Los Angeles and it opens with the band describing their first visit to Hollywood and the city’s enduring importance to their musical journey. ![]()
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